You have to understand that to the PCs, every bad thing was the Liberals' fault. I know it's been ten years since they were in power, but everything bad in the country was because of the Liberal Party.
Exactly. Work is what I do to pay for the things I like to do. I can afford nice things.
My brother's a jazz musician. He loves it, but he doesn't make much money and he STILL HAS SHIT TO DEAL WITH. All jobs have shit to deal with. Find one you like that pays well. At work play the part.
Indeed. I've got an eight-year-old daughter. When she was newborn, the older guys in band were saying, "you think you're having sleepless nights now? Wait until she's 16 and dating."
I practice yoga regularly. My mat wore out, so I was looking for a replacement. (I'm taller than the normally-sized 68" mats, so story of my life, I have to get something 4" bigger.) My job is military contracting.
The combination of yoga + weaponry apparently triggers a profile of "interested in single men".
Google thinks I'm gay... or possibly a woman, I'm not sure.
You can't fire judges in Canada. They aren't elected. Sure, they could put an act of Parliament together to try and fire the judge (which is possible in theory but has never been done) but that's The End Forever of the PC party.
The SCC has repeatedly voted against laws that violate Section 8.
Harper can TRY to change the rules if he likes, but it's not his country. If the Harper Government (TM) passes unconstitutional laws, including those that mandate minimum sentences or invade the privacy of the citizens, then they're going to be surprised with the SCC rules against them again.
If a PC gets kicked out of caucus by Stewie the Shithead, I can promise that there are two other parties that would hire them PDQ. I mean, fuck, Keith Martin was in five or six parties by the time he left Ottawa.
Oh I agree that it's a terrible waste of time and money. Nevertheless, it's a drop in the bucket compared to what they wasted on G8/G20 and arguably on the Olympics. Look at how much they spent fighting Insite all the way to the SCC. Really, all this government HAS been doing is wasting citizens' money hand over fist so why would you expect them to stop now that they have a majority? We're going to be wholly fucked by the time these clowns get out of office.
I go to an RMT once a month (I have an appointment tomorrow, actually). It's hard to get your shoulders massaged with your shirt on.
Canada has a Charter of Rights and a Constitution. No law can be passed that violates those. The Constitution itself says that it is the supreme law of the land. This proposed law clearly violates Section 8 and simply can't stand. They'll pass it anyway because they're authoritarians that want to find out any little detail that can be used against you if you ever want to run for office. Look at what they tried to do to Jack Layton last election: "HE GOT A MASSAGE!".
But this law will be struck down hard and fast by the first judge that sees a case where this evidence is used.
Nope, the best solution is to have the modems that the telcos provide log the information locally onto an SD card. No additional infrastructure required on the part of Telus / Shaw / Rogers, so they'll love the idea.
The police can get the info without a warrant, no problem -- they would just have to get a warrant to go into your house and get the fucking thing.
It's been the basis of a lot of previous decisions. They can't pass this law without re-writing our Constitution and Charter, and for that a lot of people are going to die.
And by die, I mean a long and slow death by natural causes while you try to balance neo-cons, Liberals, NDP, Québec, First Nations, urban and rural citizens, environmentalists, etc. Good Luck With That (TM).
I would suggest that if you're online in the privacy of your own home, they couldn't get a case together. If you were in a coffee shop or library they MIGHT be able to get something put together but I doubt it.
What I'm going to do is come up with a cheaper technical solution that follows the letter but not the spirit of the law, then give that solution to Shaw, Rogers, and Telus for free.:D
The lesson is that one should not let ones excellence and work ethic overshadow ones need for income.
I've lost my job several times. There was that one, where I coded myself out of the job. At a co-op job in school, we ran out of work so I ended up leaving that one early too. (Still got credit.) Before school, I was hired as a temp to sort out some documents. I got it cased in two weeks after being warned that I was "working myself out of a job". I also had a job in sales to get through school. I sold lots more than anyone else and there was a noticeable bump in turnover when I was working. Nevertheless, the assistant manager thought I was stealing "her commissions" and started writing me up for even the slightest infractions. I ended up losing that job too.
More recently, I was hired to add a new protocol to an existing system. My project manager spent his time telling people that I wasn't working hard. (He's actually the "Email me the code" guy from TDWTF) His contract was renewed, mine was not. I did get the proof-of-concept part done.
At my current job, I suggested a change that would save us hundreds of hours of overtime at the expense of 20-30 hours of front-end work. I spent hours working on it, talking to just about everyone involved. When the people working were ignoring the change because "we didn't understand it so we didn't implement it" I lost concentration, told them it was bullshit, and then I got reprimanded for swearing. It's a swearing-friendly environment. There are a few more instances, but I'll just say I've been put on three different teams since January. Now I'm on the "high-burnout" one, tight deadlines, demanding results, etc.
When I was younger I'd work my ass off to make these changes stick, making enemies along the way. Now that I'm older and have a wife and kids and a mortgage, well, I can't make us all homeless and hungry to satisfy my pride.
Now I work just hard enough to not get fired. It's actually pretty sweet, and I can see why Gen-Y and younger works like this. Wearing a job is like wearing a pair of pants. When you're done you take em off. I don't have to take my work personally, I get a full lunch hour (I go to the gym) and it still all gets done on time. I just look like I'm fucking slacking all the time. Nobody goes out of their way to get me fired. And joke's on them, I don't get stressed out about my job so I can't get burned out. Sure, I could be more productive but that would just get me fired.
As I heard from one of my friends in another office, "this job thrills me to the core... every two weeks."
See, I don't have a problem with the police getting a warrant for surveillance. That's because you've got to have a person check and you can't just go fishing. It's a terrible invasion of privacy to just have to police looking over your shoulders.
What you can do now though is that if anyone comes out against a party or against any idea AT ALL, they can just blackmail you with your Internet history. "Hey Beardo, it looks like you like this and this, would be a shame if this went to the CBC, wouldn't it? I guess you're not all that opposed to this pipeline after all." (In my case I have no shame and no pride so it wouldn't really bother me.)
They also don't have to get probable cause to see if you're downloading stuff. grep everyones_history_Telco mp3 "Here's everyone that downloaded any mp3s in the last month, Sony." It's akin to drugtesting the sewer to see if anyone in a suburb has taken drugs, and then checking every toilet in the neighbourhood.
There's not even a chance that this law will be found Constitutional by the SCC or acceptable by the privacy comissionner.
Or if not, what we can do is get PI licences and publish the web history of every MP and Senator and their familes every single day.
Hey, if you have a lot of wanderers in your family, check out Project Lifesaver.
They have a wrist-mounted transmitter that lets police and caregivers (who have the receivers) find wandering patients quickly and safely. 100% success rate.
I wrote the code for the transmitters; it was done so well that they didn't need me anymore. (They got Microchip to program them by the reel.)
It depends on what your reaction to the stuff is. If it's, "yeah, it's not like I was the only one there getting a lap dance. It's a strip club, not a nunnery," then it's not a big deal.
If your reaction is more along the lines of, "OH GOD don't tell my wife I'll do anything!" then you don't get to look at the pretty documents.*
*Actual documents are boring as fuck. I could tell you what I do, but then I'd have to... wake you up.
I don't want to use iTunes ever. I have not supported any of Apple's crap over the last 20 years and I don't plan on starting now.
Amazon won't sell you MP3s if you're not in the US. Try and finalize that purchase with a non-US credit card.
Paid movies have a ridiculous amount of unskippable prologue, intro, outro, ads, etc. Pirated movies go on the player and start up in two seconds. My Blu-Ray supports MKV over USB and DNLA and I can play when I want. If I wanted PPV, I could get a recorder from my cable company -- that only works about 90% the time, erases your recordings at random, and doesn't get the start and end most of the time -- or I could just get the latest episode online. (Hulu is US only as well.) I get a fair number of BDs and DVDs from the local library. I don't rip them.
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You have to understand that to the PCs, every bad thing was the Liberals' fault. I know it's been ten years since they were in power, but everything bad in the country was because of the Liberal Party.
The real question, the one the CBC didn't hammer on, was:
"Then who wrote the bill, Minister? Who put that in there?"
Exactly. Work is what I do to pay for the things I like to do. I can afford nice things.
My brother's a jazz musician. He loves it, but he doesn't make much money and he STILL HAS SHIT TO DEAL WITH. All jobs have shit to deal with. Find one you like that pays well. At work play the part.
Indeed. I've got an eight-year-old daughter. When she was newborn, the older guys in band were saying, "you think you're having sleepless nights now? Wait until she's 16 and dating."
I practice yoga regularly. My mat wore out, so I was looking for a replacement. (I'm taller than the normally-sized 68" mats, so story of my life, I have to get something 4" bigger.) My job is military contracting.
The combination of yoga + weaponry apparently triggers a profile of "interested in single men".
Google thinks I'm gay... or possibly a woman, I'm not sure.
(It's IE at work. I don't get ads at home.)
I will put this here so I remember to look up The Death Gate Cycle later.
I agree, this series has been dragging on forever.
I thought the same thing, "Oh, must be an 8-bit decoder."
When I was a kid I got chicken pox. We had an adult exchange student from the Phillipines.
Chicken Pox just about killed her.
Physics, alas, makes for a harsh mistress.
Yeah, but that's because Physics is a old, hairy dude.
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Physics has to be a really curvy woman.
You can't fire judges in Canada. They aren't elected. Sure, they could put an act of Parliament together to try and fire the judge (which is possible in theory but has never been done) but that's The End Forever of the PC party.
The SCC has repeatedly voted against laws that violate Section 8.
Harper can TRY to change the rules if he likes, but it's not his country. If the Harper Government (TM) passes unconstitutional laws, including those that mandate minimum sentences or invade the privacy of the citizens, then they're going to be surprised with the SCC rules against them again.
I really and truly hope that nobody dies. Canada has had one assassination in her history and it would be a terrible tragedy if someone was murdered.
Don't get me wrong, if Parliament burned down we'd all be thinking the same thing, "Oh, did all the pages and tourists get out?"
If a PC gets kicked out of caucus by Stewie the Shithead, I can promise that there are two other parties that would hire them PDQ. I mean, fuck, Keith Martin was in five or six parties by the time he left Ottawa.
Oh I agree that it's a terrible waste of time and money. Nevertheless, it's a drop in the bucket compared to what they wasted on G8/G20 and arguably on the Olympics. Look at how much they spent fighting Insite all the way to the SCC. Really, all this government HAS been doing is wasting citizens' money hand over fist so why would you expect them to stop now that they have a majority? We're going to be wholly fucked by the time these clowns get out of office.
I go to an RMT once a month (I have an appointment tomorrow, actually). It's hard to get your shoulders massaged with your shirt on.
They can pass all the laws they want. It doesn't make them legal.
How long did it take for a judge to say, "No, these mandatory sentences are not acceptable!"? Not too long.
Canada has a Charter of Rights and a Constitution. No law can be passed that violates those. The Constitution itself says that it is the supreme law of the land. This proposed law clearly violates Section 8 and simply can't stand. They'll pass it anyway because they're authoritarians that want to find out any little detail that can be used against you if you ever want to run for office. Look at what they tried to do to Jack Layton last election: "HE GOT A MASSAGE!".
But this law will be struck down hard and fast by the first judge that sees a case where this evidence is used.
Whatever you're into man, but if they cut us down to 20MB motherfuckers are going to die.
Nope, the best solution is to have the modems that the telcos provide log the information locally onto an SD card. No additional infrastructure required on the part of Telus / Shaw / Rogers, so they'll love the idea.
The police can get the info without a warrant, no problem -- they would just have to get a warrant to go into your house and get the fucking thing.
It's been the basis of a lot of previous decisions. They can't pass this law without re-writing our Constitution and Charter, and for that a lot of people are going to die.
And by die, I mean a long and slow death by natural causes while you try to balance neo-cons, Liberals, NDP, Québec, First Nations, urban and rural citizens, environmentalists, etc. Good Luck With That (TM).
Here's a link to show how the SCC has already been deciding on these issues:
http://www.canlii.org/en/ca/charter_digest/s-8.html
I would suggest that if you're online in the privacy of your own home, they couldn't get a case together. If you were in a coffee shop or library they MIGHT be able to get something put together but I doubt it.
What I'm going to do is come up with a cheaper technical solution that follows the letter but not the spirit of the law, then give that solution to Shaw, Rogers, and Telus for free. :D
The lesson is that one should not let ones excellence and work ethic overshadow ones need for income.
I've lost my job several times. There was that one, where I coded myself out of the job. At a co-op job in school, we ran out of work so I ended up leaving that one early too. (Still got credit.) Before school, I was hired as a temp to sort out some documents. I got it cased in two weeks after being warned that I was "working myself out of a job". I also had a job in sales to get through school. I sold lots more than anyone else and there was a noticeable bump in turnover when I was working. Nevertheless, the assistant manager thought I was stealing "her commissions" and started writing me up for even the slightest infractions. I ended up losing that job too.
More recently, I was hired to add a new protocol to an existing system. My project manager spent his time telling people that I wasn't working hard. (He's actually the "Email me the code" guy from TDWTF) His contract was renewed, mine was not. I did get the proof-of-concept part done.
At my current job, I suggested a change that would save us hundreds of hours of overtime at the expense of 20-30 hours of front-end work. I spent hours working on it, talking to just about everyone involved. When the people working were ignoring the change because "we didn't understand it so we didn't implement it" I lost concentration, told them it was bullshit, and then I got reprimanded for swearing. It's a swearing-friendly environment. There are a few more instances, but I'll just say I've been put on three different teams since January. Now I'm on the "high-burnout" one, tight deadlines, demanding results, etc.
When I was younger I'd work my ass off to make these changes stick, making enemies along the way. Now that I'm older and have a wife and kids and a mortgage, well, I can't make us all homeless and hungry to satisfy my pride.
Now I work just hard enough to not get fired. It's actually pretty sweet, and I can see why Gen-Y and younger works like this. Wearing a job is like wearing a pair of pants. When you're done you take em off. I don't have to take my work personally, I get a full lunch hour (I go to the gym) and it still all gets done on time. I just look like I'm fucking slacking all the time. Nobody goes out of their way to get me fired. And joke's on them, I don't get stressed out about my job so I can't get burned out. Sure, I could be more productive but that would just get me fired.
As I heard from one of my friends in another office, "this job thrills me to the core... every two weeks."
See, I don't have a problem with the police getting a warrant for surveillance. That's because you've got to have a person check and you can't just go fishing. It's a terrible invasion of privacy to just have to police looking over your shoulders.
What you can do now though is that if anyone comes out against a party or against any idea AT ALL, they can just blackmail you with your Internet history. "Hey Beardo, it looks like you like this and this, would be a shame if this went to the CBC, wouldn't it? I guess you're not all that opposed to this pipeline after all." (In my case I have no shame and no pride so it wouldn't really bother me.)
They also don't have to get probable cause to see if you're downloading stuff. grep everyones_history_Telco mp3 "Here's everyone that downloaded any mp3s in the last month, Sony." It's akin to drugtesting the sewer to see if anyone in a suburb has taken drugs, and then checking every toilet in the neighbourhood.
There's not even a chance that this law will be found Constitutional by the SCC or acceptable by the privacy comissionner.
Or if not, what we can do is get PI licences and publish the web history of every MP and Senator and their familes every single day.
Sorry, what was that?
(Same sig since 1998)
Hey, if you have a lot of wanderers in your family, check out Project Lifesaver.
They have a wrist-mounted transmitter that lets police and caregivers (who have the receivers) find wandering patients quickly and safely. 100% success rate.
I wrote the code for the transmitters; it was done so well that they didn't need me anymore. (They got Microchip to program them by the reel.)
It depends on what your reaction to the stuff is. If it's, "yeah, it's not like I was the only one there getting a lap dance. It's a strip club, not a nunnery," then it's not a big deal.
If your reaction is more along the lines of, "OH GOD don't tell my wife I'll do anything!" then you don't get to look at the pretty documents.*
*Actual documents are boring as fuck. I could tell you what I do, but then I'd have to... wake you up.
President for sure. I don't think there's a person on the planet with a higher security clearance than the CiC of the US military.
Yeah, there are four government agencies that have files on me, and I'm not even a potential presidential appointee!
I don't want to use iTunes ever. I have not supported any of Apple's crap over the last 20 years and I don't plan on starting now.
Amazon won't sell you MP3s if you're not in the US. Try and finalize that purchase with a non-US credit card.
Paid movies have a ridiculous amount of unskippable prologue, intro, outro, ads, etc. Pirated movies go on the player and start up in two seconds. My Blu-Ray supports MKV over USB and DNLA and I can play when I want. If I wanted PPV, I could get a recorder from my cable company -- that only works about 90% the time, erases your recordings at random, and doesn't get the start and end most of the time -- or I could just get the latest episode online. (Hulu is US only as well.) I get a fair number of BDs and DVDs from the local library. I don't rip them.
Any other suggestions?